Chenille fur for carpet making



Dec. l1, 1934. J. HAMILTONv CHENLLE FUR FOR CARPET MAKING l FiledlJune 0, 1932 v @@f/S l y @E @E E@ 11 IN1/eh for?. James wml/I.

Patented Dec. 11, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE James Hamilton, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, assignor to Mohawk Carpet Mills, Inc., Amsterdam, N. Y.

Application June 30, 1932, Serial No. 620,090

2 Claims.

The principal object of this invention is to produce a chenille fur strip in which the yarn tufts are securely bound so that the strip may be handled with ease and celerity in fabricating a carpet therefrom without danger of dislodging the tufts.

The principal feature of the invention consists in the novel formation of the web or pillar of a fur strip whereby the yarn tufts looped around the weft ller are securely bound between the interposed weft threads and the warp threads and a selvedge edged fur strip is produced.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an enlarged diagrammatic plan of a portion of our improved fur strip.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the selvedge edged strip shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line 4 4 of Figure 1.

In the manufacture of the fur strip herein shown the warp threads are parallelly arranged preferably seven in number and are numbered 1 to 7, and a plurality of these multiple groups are arranged on the loom, the centre thread being preferably coarser to add weight to the fabric.

A continuous weft thread or filler 8 is woven back and forth by the swivel-loom shuttle method across the warp in an interlacing construction so that loops 9 and l0 are formed at the opposite sides, thus forming a selvedge edge on each side.

The tufts 11 and 12 which are of relatively heavy yarn are looped around the weft threads, preferably by tappet devices, between the warp threads 2 and 3 and 5 and 6, thus placing a pair of warp threads at the outer sides of the tufts interlaced with the weft threads 8, and the interlaced warp threads 3, 4 and 5 are interposed between the rows of tufts.

It will thus be seen that each end of each tuft is embraced on either side by warp threads and. at right angles thereto by the interlaced weft threads 8 and the drawing taut of the weft threads binds and interlocks the warp and weft around the tuft ends above the loop. A single pile fur strip is thus produced in which the tufts are securely bound between selvedge edges and such a strip can be handled to great advantage in the final fabricating of the carpet.

What we claim as our invention is:-

1. A chenille fur strip comprising an arrangement of seven warp threads, a continuous weft thread woven in interlacing arrangement across the warp threads and looped at the outer sides if of the outer warp threads, and yarn tufts looped around the weft threads with a pair of warp threads on the outer sides of each tuft held in close engaging contact with the tufts by the looped weft threads, the central warp thread ben ment and corresponding tufts in the two rows f being looped about the same weft thread, the space between the rows being occupied by an odd number of warp threads and otherwise free of tufts with the centre warp thread of coarser count than the others, each row of tufts being separated by at least a pair of warp threads from its adjacent selvedge.

JAMES HAMILTON. 

